Gothic Fiction in Frankenstein

There are many gothic elements within the story of Frankenstein, the author of this book Mary Shelley uses vivid images and moods to describe the story bit by bit. Shelley uses many elements such as rain and thunder during Victor's creation of his monster. Another really gothic image is the way the monster was created (with other human limbs) these discriptive images really are dark and evil sounding. After the monster is created, Victor has terrible images of Elizabeth dying in his arms, and maggots start to come out of her body. I think the main gothic elements simplified are the emotions and overall feelings of gloom and despair throughout, the supernatural and the tragedy.

When we look at Shelley's piece of literature we see a lot of dark elements to this book, and these can be easily picked up throughout the book because of images that are easy to spot .

Gothic Fiction

Gothic Fiction is a type of literature that strives off of darkness, fear and even terror. One of the first Gothic books ever written was by Horace Walpole in 1764. A common feature in gothic novels back than was the reoccuring use of ruins of destoryed buildings in gothic novels often signified the decay of human creations. The decay of human creations was used by a lot of writers because of their Anti-Catholicism. However Gothic and Romanticism have been often combinded at times in novels but represent the Yin and Yang of two distinct characteristics. Many features of a Gothic book would include :
Death, Decay, Darkness, haunted houses, ghosts and etc...

Many famous Arthors such as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Pole used a lot of gothic based themes in their stories that have carried on today too modern society.